About

The Literature Network

The Literature Network is a nationally unique organisation connecting the literature community in each of the cities and counties of the East Midlands. The Literature Network maintains information resources for the literature community, organises networking and consultation events, supports the work and projects of leading literature practitioners and champions the valuable role of literature as a participatory artform.

The Literature Network currently includes a core membership of six Literature Development Officers based in local authorities and a Network Co-ordinator based at Charnwood Arts. It connects the wide and diverse range of organisations and individuals from readers and writers to producers, publishers and educators that form the literature community in the East Midlands.

In recent years the Literature Network has lead many of the East Midland’s highest profile literature projects. Appointing the regions first poet laureate for A Tale of Three Cities, producing the Freedom Showcase of spoken word art celebrating the Abolition of Slavery and organising first regional Writing Industries Conference. Members of the network deliver a host of project work from major festivals to one off community workshops in partnership with arts venues, libraries and thousands of individual readers and writers.

Support the Literature Network
The Literature Network runs with the support of Charnwood Arts, Arts Council England and individual local authorities in the East Midlands region. But our best suporters are writers, readers and individuals who choose to engage with our work. You can help support the Literature Network by promoting the EMIT Literature Newsletter and this website.

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To help promote the EMIT newsletter please add the following text to your websites, blogs, newsletters and wherever else you think it would be appropriate.

Are you passionate about literature? EMIT is the monthly e-mail newsletter for literature in the East Midlands. Every month EMIT gives you the latest literature news, details of upcoming events and opportunities for writers from introductory writing courses to major commissions. EMIT is a publication of the Literature Network.

To subscribe visit: http://literaturenetwork.org

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